Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-12
FATALLY BURNED.
THE TRAGIC END OF A CONSPIRACY TO
GET Insurance..
Mil. Da m Dcstroyed-Bank Change -co'ton
Gin Burned-Illicit Distillers
BaQged-0ther News.
rsno.lnl telegram to the DIspatch.l

awakened until the roof Of the house Tell
in on him. When he got out OF the
building he was so terribly burned that
he died in n few hours. Suspicion rests
on Esseck Best, another negro. He was
arrested and made full confession lie
said that Godfrey Elks, white man,
hired him TO do it. The house belonged
TO Elks and was insured. Elks desired
TO obtain the insurance. Best declared
that he thought Williams was absent at
the time be fred the house. Elks and
Williams are both under arrest and IN
jail.
The dam Of Hope Mills Cotton-Facto-
ry, near Fayetteville, has been swept
away. IL will cause a suspension OF
work for several months.
The Fayetteville National Bank will
go into voluntary liquidation at the end
of the year and begin operations the
next day as a State bank under new
charter.
Duncan Miller (colored), aged twenty
years, has been arrested for placing OBJ
structions on the track of the Short
Cut railway in Harnett county last Au-
gust The evidence is direct. He was
captured at Kcnansyille, and is in jail to
be tried next week.
A large posse of deputy revenue col
lectors have made important seizures OF
illicit distilleries and material in Cleve-
land county. They captured Peter Buff
and two men named Pructt.
Last year the body OF an unknown
white man was found in Catawba river,
Iredell county. Ever since the coroner
has made efforts to discover the identity
of the corpse IT has just been found
ont that it was that of a peddler named
Gaif whose headquarters were in Ashe
county.
Thelarge cotton-gin of Best Brothers
at Shine, Greene county, was burned
the day before yesterday. Loss, 5000.
No insurance. Considerable cotton was
also burned
William I. Askew, q well-known resi-
dent OF this county and owner Of the Falls
of Neuse paper-mills. died there this
morning aged sixtythree.
Henry ID. Colcy, who for years pub
lished the North Carolina Almanac here
and was Tor several years State Librarian,
was stricken with paralysis at his home
here last night. His age Is seventy.
His condition is critical.
a very curious case was tried this week
ut the Superior Court of Orange county.
Colonel j. /. Allen was sued by Albert
johnson lcolored) for $1,000 damages
for taking Johnson's wife away from
him. The jury returned a verdict
for Johnson for $500
The excitement in the cotton market
has been for the past few days very great.
The rapid advance in prices caused a real
sensation. The question was askedwhat
caused the sharp increase in prices. 1t
was said in reply by farmers here that
perhaps reason was the miscalculations
OF the cropcstimates. Cotton IS ginning
short this year in other words, while 1t
usually requires 200 pounds to yield a
400-pound bale, this season the seed are
so remarkably large and heavy that it
often requires l 400 pounds Of cotton IN
the seed to yield a 400-pound bale. In
parts of this State this tact is noted. 1t
IS 50 here now TO large extent. This
fact of course reduces the estimates very
materially. It shows how many clements
enter into calculations on the crop.
The East Carolina Land and Hallway
Company has applied to the county OF
Craven for a $4,000 subscription to and
it in the building of railway from New
bernc to Washington, y. c., and for a
$50, 00O subscription to aid it in building
lin connection with the Wilmington,
Onslow and East Carolina railroadD a
railway from Newbernc to Wilmington,
through Jones, Fender, and Onslow
counties. The people of Newberne are
greatly stirred up by the projected ex-
tension of the Scotland Neck branch OF
the Wilmington and Weldon railway to
Washington. This will, unless counter
action be taken, seriously inlure New
bernc's trade The Ncwberneites also fear
that the Wilmington and Weldon will
build a branch to tap the fertile section,
and thus cut them off on both sides.
The election on a 500, 900 subscription,
the same as the one mentioned, is or
dcred to be held December 9th, in
Onslow county. 1T is said the measure
will be carried.
The fairs at Fayetteville and TarborO'
ended to-day. Both we're very success
ful.
Ithas been decided to establish another
home for orphans at Magnolia, Duplin
county. There are now four institutions
for orphans in the State.
Wilmington's increase in cotton re-
ceipts this season is over 10000 bales.
Mr.. G. f. King, the editor of the
organ Of the knights OF Labor OF this
State, has written an open letter in re-
ply to All inquiry rs to the purposes and
plans Of his order aud the legislation it
desires 1t says that rs to State legisla-
ton it asks law prohibiting children
under fifteen from working in factories,
shops, and mines the weekly payment
of employees in money, not in script ;
the making OF ten hours a lawful day b
work; women when doing the same
work as men to receive mems pay ;
stringent measures looking to the health
and safety OF employees attention to
the grievances of working people ;
the abolition OF the convict contract
system. Mr.. King says: I'm a word,
the Knights OF Labor ask for Justice.
Not a semblance of law that can be
warped and twisted to suit the conve-
nience of moneyed monopolists, but the
guarantee by the strong arm of a right
eous and paternal government OF the
rights and privileges to which every citi-
zen is entitled" he says that neither OF
the present political parties has satisfied
the workingmen's wants, and that it is
this fact which makes the general
topic Of talk among North Carolina
workingmen to-day the formation of a
new political party.
Rev. W. NJ. Clarke, of Chapel Hill,
has accepted the cali to become rector of
the Church of the Good Shepherd, this
city.